Winners and losers in this week's green news

This week's green stars

• Tap Water
The stylish, contemporary glasses pictured left have won a competition to design a container to serve drinking water at London restaurants with profits going to Water Aid. Will this get the message through about that bottled rubbish?

• Low energy lightbulbs
Energy saving lightbulbs finally got their chance to shine this week when most supermarkets stated they would only re-stock CFLs in advance of the forthcoming EU ban. Naturally, the Daily Mail is 'incandescent' with rage.

Follow the jump to find out who's 'in the red'...

In The Red

• Aliens
'Some sort of UFO' remains the prime suspect after a wind turbine in Lincolnshire used by Ecotricity was mysteriously damaged.

• Plasma screen TVs
We've known for a while that giant plasma screens were a bit too greedy with their electricity consumption, but now the "4x4s of the living room" are facing an EU ban after it was found that most models fail new energy efficiency standards.

• Burger King
In a spectacular display of viral marketing gone wrong, the 'other burger chain' disgraced itself when its patronising 'BK virgins' video appeared on the web, prompting displeasure from bloggers everywhere.

• Primark
For the UK sweatshop stuff. It'll be news when we don't have to include the throwaway fashion chain in this roundup...

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